Can Any Mother Help Me?

Jenna Bailey (Author)

In
1935, a young woman wrote a letter to the women's magazine Nursery
World,
expressing her feelings of isolation and loneliness. 'Can any mother
help me? I live a very lonely life as I have no near neighbours. I
cannot afford to buy a wireless. I adore reading, but with no library
am very limited with books . . .

Can
any reader suggest an occupation that will intrigue me and exclude
"thinking" and cost nothing!'

Women
from all over the country wrote back expressing similar frustrations.
They were full of ideas and opinions but had nowhere to express them.
So they decided to start a private magazine.

In
Can
Any Mother Help Me? Jenna
Bailey presents the extraordinary group of wives and mothers whose
lives connected through a magazine.

Her
book is an intimate and moving collection of personal stories and,
above all, a portrait of inseparable friendships.